From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: done-ing a repeating scheduled task now inserts closed timestamp?
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 17:49:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E4F889D6-E90D-4D99-AE7F-FDA1649146F7@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eixduzxm.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>
Hi Bernt,
to me this sounds like a pretty convincing argument *not*
to copy entries...
Another problem is that entries can have IDs, and I
would like the ID of such an entry to remain the same,
as a link target.
- Carsten
On Mar 4, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>> On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Manuel Hermenegildo wrote:
>>
>>> I think a perhaps better behavior could be that the same line:
>>>
>>> ** TODO Check backups <2009-03-05 Thu 11:00 +2d>
>>>
>>> is marked as done, then a) a *copy* is made of the TODO item, and
>>> that
>>> copy is the one that goes to DONE and gets the CLOSED (i.e., a
>>> "normal" task is generated and updated) and b) the repeating task is
>>> shifted (without attaching anything to it, since it is a "fresh"
>>> task):
>>>
>>> ** DONE Check backups <2009-03-05 Sat 11:00>
>>> CLOSED: [2009-03-05 Tue 07:57]
>>> - State "DONE" from "TODO" [2009-03-03 Tue 07:57]
>>> ** TODO Check backups <2009-03-07 Sat 11:00 +2d>
>>>
>>> Apart from behaving more like a normal task this would have in my
>>> mind
>>> some additional advantages: I like DONE tasks to eventually
>>> disappear
>>> from my agenda. I do this by archiving them (to sibling). This
>>> allows
>>> me to easily see that I have not left anything behind in past
>>> days. I
>>> could now do this with the copied task, independently of the updated
>>> repeater. When I want to look at what I did on a certain day I hit
>>> the
>>> handy "v" key and the archived, done tasks appear again, including
>>> those that originated from the repeater --great! I.e., the
>>> repeater leaves behind a trail of normal tasks.
>>
>> This is an interesting, alternative proposal for repeating tasks.
>>
>> Anyone else would like to comment on this?
>
> Here are some comments :)
>
> I've thought that copying the repeated task would be useful as well
> but
> it might not be worth the effort to get it right for the general case.
>
> My concern in copying it is I want most of the content copied too. I
> regularly add check box lists to repeated tasks with a list of
> things to
> do and properties to reset the check boxes.
>
> The new copied task would ideally (for me) keep the :PROPERTIES:
> drawer
> and the content but not the :LOGBOOK: drawer.
>
> Any notes and things would go in the LOGBOOK drawer that shouldn't be
> carried forward.
>
> ,----[ before copy ]
> | ** TODO Weekly Review
> | SCHEDULED: <2009-03-09 Mon ++1w>
> | :LOGBOOK:...
> | :PROPERTIES:
> | :RESET_CHECK_BOXES: t
> | :END:
> |
> | - [ ] Do this
> | - [ ] Do that
> | - [ ] Do another thing
> |
> | Skip these
> |
> | - [ ] Used to be Important task 1
> | - [ ] Used to be Important task 2
> |
> | ** Next task
> `----
>
> After copying for repeat I'd like the new task to be:
>
> ,----[ after copy (new copied task) ]
> | ** TODO Weekly Review
> | SCHEDULED: <2009-03-16 Mon ++1w>
> | :PROPERTIES:
> | :RESET_CHECK_BOXES: t
> | :END:
> |
> | - [ ] Do this
> | - [ ] Do that
> | - [ ] Do another thing
> |
> | Skip these
> |
> | - [ ] Used to be Important task 1
> | - [ ] Used to be Important task 2
> |
> | ** Next task
> `----
>
> The DONE task should probably have the check boxes retained checked,
> and
> the new copy has the checkboxes cleared. This seems like it could get
> overly complicated real fast. :(
>
> I could also see this for more involved tasks where you want to
> propagate the subtree too (like my bookkeeping task has lots of steps
> which I keep as separate tasks below the repeated tasks).
>
> Copying the level 2 task (Q2 Accounting) would need to copy all of the
> subtasks in the tree and strip out the :LOGBOOK: drawers from the
> copy.
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ** TODO Q2 Accounting :PROJECT:
> DEADLINE: <2009-04-30 Thu +1y>
> :PROPERTIES:
> :Effort: 3:00
> :ORDERED: t
> :END:
> *** TODO January Accounting [0/17] [0%] :NEXT:
> :LOGBOOK:...
> :PROPERTIES:
> :RESET_CHECK_BOXES: t
> :END:
> - [ ] Enter Personal Expenses
> - [ ] Enter credit card charges
> - [ ] Balance credit card statement
> - [ ] Enter Cheques and payments
> - [ ] Enter Invoices - Receive Payments
> - [ ] Balance Bank accounts
> ...
> - [ ] Get USD value at month end
> - [ ] Foreign Exchange Adjustments
> - [ ] Print Reports
> - [ ] File receipts and reports
>
> *** TODO February Accounting [0/17] [0%]...
> *** TODO Mileage Jan - Mar
> :PROPERTIES:...
>
> | | Date | Car | From | To | Total | Where |
> Why |
> |---+-------------+---------+-------+-------+-------+------------
> +---------------------------|
> | # | | | | | |
> | |
>
> *** TODO March Accounting [0/17] [0%]...
> **** TODO Record personal mileage details...
> *** TODO GST [0/3] [0%]
> :LOGBOOK:...
> :PROPERTIES:
> :Effort: 0:10
> :RESET_CHECK_BOXES: t
> :END:
>
> - [ ] Print GST Reports
> - [ ] File receipts and reports
> - [ ] File GST Tax Return
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> After writing all this... it would probably be easier just to extract
> out the :LOGBOOK: entries and duplicate the subtree structure for the
> completed tasks. (ie. the copy is the completed task and just
> reschedule the existing task into the future like we do now)
>
> It might be nice to have a way to have some subtasks in the tree _not_
> be copied. If you have something to remember for this upcoming
> repeated
> task you create a subtask for that... but you won't need that in the
> repeated task.
>
> Regards,
> Bernt
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-06 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 1:29 done-ing a repeating scheduled task now inserts closed timestamp? Samuel Wales
2009-03-03 8:56 ` Manuel Hermenegildo
2009-03-04 13:03 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-04 14:26 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-03-06 16:49 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-03-07 21:26 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-03-08 18:25 ` Manuel Hermenegildo
2009-03-09 7:41 ` Carsten Dominik
[not found] ` <18870.13851.387945.968246@clip.dia.fi.upm.es>
2009-03-11 14:15 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-04 13:15 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-03-04 13:30 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-04 6:17 ` Carsten Dominik
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